Hold My Hand (Hootie & the Blowfish song)

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"Hold My Hand"
H and TB - Hold My Hand single.png
Single by Hootie & the Blowfish
from the album Cracked Rear View
B-side "I Go Blind"
ReleasedJuly 18, 1994
Genre
Length4:15
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Don Gehman
Hootie & the Blowfish singles chronology
"Hold My Hand"
(1994)
"Let Her Cry"
(1994)
Music video
"Hold My Hand” on YouTube

"Hold My Hand" is the debut single of the American alternative rock band Hootie & the Blowfish from their album Cracked Rear View . All four of the band members (Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim Sonefeld) wrote the song sometime in 1989, and it was released on a self-titled cassette EP the year after. Released in July 1994, "Hold My Hand" charted at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song includes a backing vocal from David Crosby. [6]

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Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that the song "has a singalong chorus that epitomizes the band's good-times vibes." [7]

Chart performance

"Hold My Hand" peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [8] and number six on Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. [9] It ended the year at number 22 on the Billboard year-end chart for 1995. [10]

Music video

The music video was directed by Adolfo Doring.[ citation needed ]

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesJuly 18, 1994Radio Atlantic [ citation needed ]
United KingdomFebruary 13, 1995
  • CD
  • cassette
[24]

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